Christopher 'CT' Schenk, Justin Day, Dane Maxwell and 9 others
Attended
Twelve operators spent the session putting Fable 5 to work during its ten-day trial. The room traded real builds and real numbers — one-shot websites, a local-SEO game funnel, agent-run back offices, and AI that clips its own best moments — then pressure-tested what's still breaking. No demos, no theory, just what people actually shipped.
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Every owner shared one real result from the last 90 days. These are the three the room chose to go deep on.
11-min Loom → branded page in ~30 min
The problemCase-study pages are slow to produce and usually come out generic.
Austin fed Fable 5 an 11-minute Loom walkthrough and a folder of raw photos for a Waterloo Turf customer story. The model one-shot a branded, conversion-optimized landing page in about half an hour, then reviewed its own work through stacked brand, CRO, copy, and SEO skills. The moment that stopped the room: it sorted the photos into 'before' and 'after' correctly without any filename or instruction telling it which was which.
A conversion-ready, on-brand page in roughly 30 minutes, with the model correctly interpreting the before/after photos on its own.
Takeaway The model has taste. It understood the before and after without being told.
See the case study page he builtSurfaces ~$22,000/mo in jobs owners never see
The problemLocal owners can't see the revenue they're losing to weak online visibility.
Justin built a 2D game funnel from the twelve objections he hears most on sales calls, then handed players off to a personalized 'Invisible Business Scan' that audits their Google profile, website, schema, citations, and competitors. The scan translates each gap into lost revenue, and a back-end accuracy dashboard self-audits every calculation and flags anything below 70% confidence.
A funnel that quantifies invisible losses and shows owners exactly where they're leaking jobs.
Takeaway Invisible costs more. Put a real number on what they can't see.
Try the Invisible Business ScanLong-form → top captioned clips on request
The problemPulling the highest-impact clips out of long video is slow and subjective.
Rohan shipped Bitterclip: upload a video, talk to Claude in plain language, and it reasons over the footage plus a custom 'editor taste' skill to grade and cut the best clips with captions. Because the taste is a swappable skill, you can tell it whose eye to use — 'Spielberg would cut differently than Nolan' — and get a different edit.
On-request, captioned best clips cut to whatever editorial taste you specify. Free at bitterclip.com.
Takeaway Give the AI a world-class editor's taste, then tell it whose eye to use.
Get Bitterclip freeDefaulting to AI is a strength — but you should never defer to it. The moment you just place what it hands you without questioning it, you've stopped thinking. Make it explain why, and your own judgment gets sharper.
Christopher 'CT' Schenk, on staying the human in the loop Do CEOs tell you how to do your job? No — they tell you the goal and why it matters. Most people prompt like rookies because they're specialists, fixated on the how instead of the why.
Austin Distel, on prompting like an operator In a world of abundant information, knowledge, and intelligence, the only thing that's truly scarce is trusted relationships.
Rohan Karunakaran I stopped talking in terms of agents. I just build file structures that get a loop done — 'an agent for SEO, an agent for this' got clunky fast, so now I build pathways.
Entrepreneurship isn't about proving how intelligent you are. My team is smarter than me at so many things — so I build the technology around the people.
The patterns that kept surfacing, with the people who said them best.
You have ten days with the best AI ever made — treat the deadline as a forcing function.
The Fable 5 trial ends June 22 with roughly $1,000+ of API credits per member. The room treated it as a reason to ship something real, not a free sample to poke at.
The best AI users will be the best CEOs.
AI rewards people who can name the outcome they want and reverse-engineer the team to build it. Specialists get stuck prompting the 'how'; operators win on the 'why.'
Default to AI, but never defer to it.
Letting the model quietly make your decisions atrophies your thinking. Making it explain itself — and pushing back — is what actually sharpens your judgment over time.
Plan before you build. Aim before you accelerate.
CT spends two to three days on the right questions, and then the build collapses to about an hour. Speed only pays off once it's pointed at the correct outcome.
Aim every build at one revenue outcome.
The wins that mattered weren't clever tech — they were clear results. Justin one-shot 80% of a two-month, six-figure, ~90%-margin project in a single day with Fable.
Find your one domino and knock it over.
Two weeks after naming his single bottleneck — clipping video — Rohan had a working tool. Fix the one constraint that makes everything else easier or unnecessary.
Build skills like employees, not tasks.
Don't make a 'LinkedIn skill' and an 'email skill.' Build a 'head of comms' whose scope spans every channel, with each task as its own file you can improve without breaking the rest.
Give your agent a nightly self-improvement loop.
Justin calls it 'Dreaming,' CT calls it EBI ('Even Better If'): a hook that reviews the day, journals what it learned, and proposes what's even better — and is never allowed to degrade the work.
Make the tool show its work.
Justin's scan runs a back-end dashboard that proves every calculation and holds accuracy above 70%. An audit you can audit is both the trust-builder and the ethical bar.
Getting agentic makes the room more valuable, not less.
When everyone works solo in private chat silos, the unlock is multiplayer — seeing each other's prompts, workflows, and live builds. The more the work automates, the more the edge comes from proximity.
The roomWe start in connection. Every member shared a win, a struggle, and an ask — find where you can help.
Real-estate transaction SaaS (Paperless Pipeline) — touches ~8% of US home sales
Agentic real-estate wholesaling & high-end spec development in Austin
Founder-led content marketing agency (Frontier Studio); building Bitterclip
Chief Agent Officer at Agentic Society (Agentic OS); GenAI University
Video & marketing for Austin luxury-construction firms; builder of Auto Social
Founder of Opus / Ovae — immersive sound-and-vibration hardware; AI 'second brain' builder
Day by Day — local-SEO agency for home-services businesses
Co-owns the agency with Justin; runs a wellness brand for autoimmune disease
Luxury construction in Austin (homes, wine cellars, gyms) plus glass and MEP companies
Fractional COO at Agentic Society (remote); ex-Disney+ operations
Every tool, skill, and build that came up — links to go try them.
Bitterclip
Rohan's AI video-clipping app — upload, talk to Claude, get captioned best clips. Free for members.
bitterclip.comInvisible Business Scan
Justin Day's local-SEO audit — scores your Google visibility and puts a dollar figure on the jobs you're missing.
scan.swarmsystem.aiWaterloo Turf case study
Austin's one-shot landing page, built from an 11-minute Loom in about 30 minutes.
claude.distel.comEBI — the 'Even Better If' skill
CT's recursive 12-point improvement skill that keeps refining work without ever letting it degrade.
ebiskill.comAgentic Society event recaps
The auto-generated recap microsite system Austin demoed — the page you're reading.
agenticsociety.com/eventsClaude Code
The terminal harness the room builds in — where Fable 5 lives.
claude.com/claude-codeTwelveLabs
Video-understanding API Nick uses to pick clips by what's actually happening on screen.
twelvelabs.ioFirecrawl
Web scraper powering the live website portion of Justin's scan.
firecrawl.devLovable
No-code builder used for v1 of the scan before rebuilding it in Fable.
lovable.devVercel
Where the Claude-built sites are hosted — cheap and fast.
vercel.com
The Agentic Society is a private room of owners & operators becoming Agentic CEOs by building their companies with smart teams and AI Agents. If you know someone who would be a good fit to join our Mastermind, make an intro via text message to Austin Distel. If they become a member within 90 days, you'll receive a $500 referral reward.
Text Distel @ 650-690-1724 Austin Distel
Founder, Agentic Society
Founder of the Agentic Society — a private room of owners and operators becoming Agentic CEOs.
Dane Maxwell
Owner, Paperless Pipeline
Owns a 17-year real-estate transaction SaaS that touches ~8% of US home sales; now adding AI features.
Prashant Vanka
Agentic real estate, Austin
Runs an AI-powered direct-to-seller wholesale and high-end spec engine in Austin.
Rohan Karunakaran
Founder, Frontier Studio · Bitterclip
Grows founder-led content on LinkedIn; built Bitterclip, an AI video-clipping app.
Darby Rollins
Chief Agent Officer, Agentic Society
Builds the Agentic OS — skills and agents for the community; founder of GenAI University.
Nick Blancett
Video & marketing · Auto Social
Content and video strategy for Austin luxury-construction firms; builder of the Auto Social app.
Christopher 'CT' Schenk
Founder, Opus
Cut his team from 24 to 6 while 10x-ing output; built the EBI ('Even Better If') recursive-improvement skill.
Justin Day
Founder, Day by Day (local SEO)
Runs a local-SEO agency for home services; built the Invisible Business Scan and an overnight 'Dreaming' system.
Jo Feathers
Wellness for autoimmune disease
Reaches millions with authentic, lived-experience wellness content; co-owns a digital agency with Justin Day.
Chance Forman
Luxury construction, Austin
Builds custom homes, wine cellars, and gyms in Austin; rolling AI across his teams to make people superhuman.
Roman Bediner
Fractional COO, Agentic Society
Operational backbone behind the Agentic Society; ex-Disney+ operations.
Cristian Aguilar
Agentic Society team
On the Agentic Society team.